Imagining home : American war fiction from Hemingway to 9/11 /

War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, Susan Elizabeth, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017.
Colección:Studies in American literature and culture.
Temas:
Hemingway, Ernest, > 1899-1961 > Criticism and interpretation.
Vonnegut, Kurt > Criticism and interpretation.
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946- > Criticism and interpretation.
Hemingway, Ernest, > 1899-1961
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946-
Vonnegut, Kurt
1900-2099
War stories, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Home in literature.
War in literature.
Récits de guerre américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Foyer dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Home in literature
War in literature
War stories, American
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; "Isn't It Pretty to Think So?": Ernest Hemingway's Impossible Homes; "A Universe of Two": Constructing Worlds through Narrative in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut; "It Wasn't a War Story. It Was a Love Story": Tim O'Brien and the Ethics of Home; "A Hole in the Middle of Me": Shattered Homes in Post-9/11 Literature; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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